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San Francisco building permits

Residential alteration leads San Francisco's filing mix, followed by multifamily alteration and commercial alteration. Recent movement is concentrated in commercial signage, running 31% above its own prior quarter. Multifamily alteration runs 8.4× hotter here than across our coverage generally. Parcel-joined, with field-level data-quality flags throughout; older history via free signup or the API.
1,127,338 permits classified · field-DQ-cleared · refreshed nightly

1,129,301 permits in San Francisco. Use Explore the data below for the filterable view.

Where the value concentratesSan Francisco
Filing momentum
Prior 90d6,293
Last 90d6,236

-1% vs prior 90d

Based on filings in the source's current publication window — not the all-time indexed total.

LiveLast 10 days of permits · Parcel-joined · 23 IBC segments · field-level DQ flags
23 IBC segments tracked10 active in San Francisco7 refreshed in the last 14 dayssee per-segment freshness →
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We read each permit's work-type, scope, and occupancy fields to place it in a real segment — so “commercial HVAC in San Francisco” means real HVAC work, not a keyword match.

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— and we flag what we don't know

Coverage is labeled, missing fields show —, and where there are too few reliable filings to stand behind a value we publish —, never a fabricated number.

San Francisco by segment

Sourced from the segment-distribution artifact · Each links to that segment in San Francisco

12 segments: no permits in window.

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